Athens: La Zone, a new libertarian space in Exarcheia

from Freedom News UK

Opening a new activist space in Exarcheia has a significant dimension. This historic district of resistance to the dictatorship, and today to gentrification, is particularly threatened by the Greek government and developers. Squats evicted and migrants controlled, permanent presence of police forces and muscular surveillance.

ANEGERSIS CONSTRUCTION symbolically attacked

From Athens Indymedia via Act for freedom now!

So, on Friday 28/7 we symbolically attacked, throwing paint at it, the ANEGERSIS CONSTRUCTION company whose headquarters are in Argyroupoli, and was the contractor responsible for doing the dirty work of cementing up the occupation of 56 Dervenion in Exarcheia. We do not forget the informers and minions of the state.

Text regarding the situation in Exarcheia

From Athens Indymedia

Exarcheia finds itself in a moment of existential crisis. However, while most groups are focusing on the external forces that threaten the neighborhood, they are ignoring some of the internal conditions that have helped bring us to this point.

Anarchists in Exarcheia attack AirBnBs, boutique hotels and cameras

Taking responsibility for attacks on Airbnbs, hotels and cameras in Exarcheia

In a virgin forest, a wild mountain, a quiet clear sea, a beautiful neighborhood, the capitalist sees prime real estate, a new field of investment and profit. There is nothing in the world we live in, the world of state power and the capitalist organization of the economy, that does not have some exchange value, that is not valued in money.

Exarcheia, the subway station, and public space

From Freedom News UK

For quite some time now, in the historic Exarcheia neighbourhood of Athens, home to countless anti-authoritarian and anarchist collectives, squats, and social centres, there has been a struggle directed against the construction of a metro station on the district’s central square. How does an area with such a libertarian history oppose the expansion of public transport, one might ask; but the truth is that the problem is not the subway as such, but the way the decision to build was made and what will came after it.

Responsibility Claim for Attack at Attiko Metro Station

From Athens Indymedia

At the same time that poverty, fascism, patriarchy and gentrification are being imposed as a natural State, we choose to disrupt them at every opportunity and send back part of the violence we experience. For this reason, on Sunday 23/11, we attacked the Attiko Metro station Ag. Ioannis, destroying entrance barriers, ticket machines and ATMs, participating our way against the increasing proliferation of the metro station in Exarcheia Square and in the struggle to defend the neighbourhood.

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